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The young Charles Darwin /

What sort of person was the young naturalist who developed an evolutionary idea so logical, so dangerous, that it has dominated biological science for a century and a half? How did the quiet and shy Charles Darwin produce his theory of natural selection when many before him had started down the same...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thomson, Keith Stewart
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • PART ONE: Beginnings
  • ONE Falmouth
  • TWO Antecedents
  • THREE Childhood
  • FOUR Edinburgh
  • FIVE Robert Jameson
  • SIX Mentors and Models
  • SEVEN Lamarckians
  • EIGHT Cambridge Undergraduate
  • PART TWO: Savant
  • NINE More Serious Things
  • TEN Reading Science
  • ELEVEN Geology Again
  • TWELVE HMS Beagle
  • THIRTEEN Epiphanies
  • FOURTEEN Storms and Floods
  • PART THREE: Natural Selection
  • FIFTEEN First Thoughts on Evolution
  • SIXTEEN Notebook B
  • SEVENTEEN Moving Forward, Living a Lie
  • EIGHTEEN Finding His PlaceNINETEEN First Drafts
  • TWENTY Crisis and Resolution
  • Notes
  • Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
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